The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
"does he make you laugh?"; "he doesn't make me cry"; "because the house always wins, play long enough, you never change the stakes, the house always takes you, unless when that perfect hand comes along, you bet big and you take the house"; "once you're out the front door, you're still in the middle of the fucking desert"; "You think we need one more?"; "longest hour of my life"; "I'm running away with your wife"
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- The Danny and Tess exchange, does he make you laugh answered with he doesn't make me cry, with an incredible line reading by Julia; Danny's house-always-wins speech, joked to be headed for Sean's tombstone, with Rusty's did-you-practice-that follow-up as part of its greatness.
- Ruben's warning that stealing from Terry Benedict is no longer civilized, he will kill you and then go to work on you, and his reminder that once you are out the front door you are still in the middle of the desert, which one host relates to, hating the desert.
- It is hard to get past the George and Julia exchange; the you-think-we-need-one-more exchange, all Clooney and Pitt with Pitt slumped over his gimlet, is likened to Bill talking about adding another podcast feed.
- Rusty and the bartender, longest hour of my life, answered with I'm running away with your wife; and Topher Grace realizing his business manager and his manager are both named Bernie.